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FM 55-506-1 Basic Electricity

by: United States. Department of the Army

Publication date: 1977-04-22

Usage: Public Domain Mark 1.0

Topics: Ships -- Electric equipment, Electricity, Field Manual, US Army, United States. Army, Marine engineering -- Handbooks, manuals, etc, Electricity -- Handbooks, manuals, etc, United States. -- Army -- Handbooks, Manuals, etc, Ham Radio, Amateur Radio

Collection: military-manuals; manuals; additional_collections; dlarc; americana

Language: English

FM 55-506-1 Basic Electricity. 1977-04-22
CONTENTS 1. Safety 1 2. Fundamental concepts of electricity 11 3. Batteries 34 4. Series d-c circuits 57 5. Parallel d-c circuits 85 6. Network analysis of d-c circuits 106 7. Electrical conductors and wiring techniques 123 8. Electromagnetism and magnetic circuits 149 9. Introduction to alternating-current electricity .... 159 10. Inductance 171 11. Capacitance 188 12. Inductive and capacltive reactance . . 206 13. Fundamental alternating- current circuit theory. ... 215 14. Circuit protective and control devices 238 15. Electrical Indicating instruments 250 16. Alternating-current generators and transformers .. 287 17. Alternating-current motors 317 18. Direct- current generators 338 19. Direct- current motors 367 20. Magnetic amplifiers 393 21. Synchros and servomechanisms 415 Appendix I. Greek alphabet 455 II. Common abbreviations and letter symbols 456 III. Electrical terms 458 IV. Component color code 463 V. Cable type and size designations 468 VI. Current-carrying capacities of conductors 469 VII. Full load currents of motors 470 VIII. Formulas 471 DC. Trigonometric functions 474 X. Square and square roots < 483 XI. Laws of exponents 484 Index 485 Digitized by Google Books.